Skip to main content
  • The Academy School
    3 Pilgrims Place
    Rosslyn Hill
    London
    NW3 1NG
  • Head: Mr G Evans
  • T 020 7435 6621
  • F 020 7435 7457
  • E [email protected]
  • W www.academysch…olhampstead.com
  • An independent school for boys and girls aged from 6 to 13.
  • Boarding: No
  • Local authority: Camden
  • Pupils: 86
  • Religion: Not Applicable
  • Fees: £24,306 pa

    Fees last updated: 29/09/2024

    Please note school fees are subject to VAT from January 2025. During this transition period, please contact school for full fee information.

  • Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
  • Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report

What says..

What the Academy does better than anything is cement the building blocks of education. Though the national curriculum is largely followed, once official targets have been met, teachers and pupils are free to explore above and beyond, with extracurricular subjects like algebra – ‘useful for analysing problems and thinking mathematically’ – added to the mix. Happiness and wellbeing, too, have always been the bedrock of an Academy education, with even Ofsted indulging in superlatives. (‘Personal development is superb.’) ‘They’re really good at seeing the children and knowing who they are,’ said one mother. ‘They develop them emotionally and academically and tenderly.’

Read review »

Do you know this school?

The schools we choose, and what we say about them, are founded on parents’ views. If you know this school, please share your views with us.

Please login to post a comment.

What The Good Schools Guide says

Joint principals

Since 1997, Garth Evans BA and Chloe Sandars LRAM, Prof Cert FTCL (joint principals). They founded the school in 1997. Mrs Sandars attended Oxford High School for Girls before studying piano at the Royal Academy of Music and postgraduate training at Trinity College of Music. She then played professionally while teaching part time. Mr Evans, whose great-grandfather accompanied Captain Scott to the Antarctic, was educated at Falkner House, Westminster School and Queen Mary College, London, where he read English. He started tutoring privately at the age of 16. The pair met while teaching at a north London prep school, but it was the parents of their private tutees who encouraged them to start their own school. ‘They liked the way we taught,’ he says. ‘Their children were inspired and given confidence.’ That remains...

Subscribe now for instant access to read The Good Schools Guide review.

Already subscribed? Login here.

Special Education Needs

GSG say, not a school for serious SEN issues but may be ideal for the less robust child who will benefit from flexible attitudes and nurturing.


Subscribe for instant access to in-depth reviews:

☑ 30,000 Independent, state and special schools in our parent-friendly interactive directory
☑ Instant access to in-depth UK school reviews
☑ Honest, opinionated and fearless independent reviews of over 1,000 schools
☑ Independent tutor company reviews

Try before you buy - The Charter School Southwark

Buy Now

GSG Blog >

The Good Schools Guide newsletter

Educational insight in your inbox. Sign up for our popular newsletters.